Next Turkish parliamentary election

Next Turkish parliamentary election

On or before 7 May 2028

All 600 seats in the Grand National Assembly 301 seats needed for a majority

Party Leader Current seats AKP Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 280 YENİ Özgür Özel 91 DEM Tülay Hatimoğulları Tuncer Bakırhan 56 MHP Devlet Bahçeli 46 CHP Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu 44 İYİ Müsavat Dervişoğlu 27 YY İzzettin Küçük 20 YRP Fatih Erbakan 4 HÜDA PAR Zekeriya Yapıcıoğlu 4 DP Gültekin Uysal 1 TİP Erkan Baş 3 DBP Çiğdem Kılıçgün Uçar Keskin Bayındır 2 EMEP Seyit Aslan 2 SAADET Mahmut Arıkan 1 DSP Önder Aksakal 1 Independents N/A 10 Incumbent Speaker of the Assembly Numan Kurtulmuş AKP

Parliamentary elections will be held in Turkey no later than 7 May 2028, alongside presidential elections, to elect all 600 members of the Grand National Assembly. The incoming members will form the 29th Parliament of Turkey.

Background

2023 parliamentary election

Main article: 2023 Turkish parliamentary election

The previous general election were held on 14 May 2023, and the second round of the presidential election was held on 28 May 2023. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has been in office since 2014, was re-elected president in the 2023 elections. The AKP, which received 35.62% of the votes in the general elections, came in first place, winning 268 of the 600 seats in parliament. The main opposition party, the CHP, entered parliament with 169 seats.

Additionally, 61 deputies from the Green Left Party, 50 from the MHP, 43 from the İYİ Party, 5 from the New Welfare Party, and 4 from the TİP received the necessary votes to enter parliament.

Due to the alliances formed after the elections, 4 deputies elected from the AK Party lists went to the Free Cause Party, 1 deputie to the Democratic Left Party, 15 deputies elected from the CHP went to the DEVA Party, 10 deputies each to the Future Party and SAADET, 3 deputies to the DP, 2 deputies elected from the Green Left Party went to the EMEP, 2 deputies to the HDP and 1 deputy to the TÖP, thus creating a parliamentary distribution in which 16 parties are represented.

Hatay MP Can Atalay, who was imprisoned due to the Gezi Park case, could not attend the oath-taking ceremony held on 2 June 2023. He was subsequently stripped of his parliamentary seat.

On 4 June 2023, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced the 2nd presidential cabinet of Turkey. The vice president and 15 of the 17 ministers in the previous cabinet have changed and new names have taken office.

2024 local elections

Main article: 2024 Turkish local elections

Electoral system

Number of MPs to be elected per electoral district

The 600 members of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey will be elected by party-list proportional representation in 87 electoral districts, by the D'Hondt method, with an electoral threshold of 7% (except for independent candidates). For the purpose of legislative elections, 77 of Turkey's 81 provinces serve as single districts. Due to their large populations, the provinces of Bursa and İzmir are divided into two districts, while the provinces of Ankara and Istanbul are each divided into three.

According to the Constitution of Turkey, any amendment to the election law can only apply a year after it comes into effect.

Electoral districts

Main article: Electoral districts of Turkey

Turkey is split into 87 electoral districts, which elect a certain number of members to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. The Assembly has a total of 600 seats, with each electoral district allocated a certain number of MPs in proportion to their population. The Supreme Electoral Council of Turkey conducts population reviews of each district before the election and can increase or decrease a district's number of seats according to their electorate.

In all but four cases, electoral districts share the same name and borders as the 81 provinces, with the exceptions being Ankara, Bursa, İzmir and Istanbul. Provinces electing between 19 and 36 MPs are split into two electoral districts, while any province electing above 36 MPs is divided into three. As the country's most populous provinces, Bursa and İzmir are divided into two subdistricts while Ankara and Istanbul are divided into three. The distribution of elected MPs per electoral district is shown below.

District MPs Adana 15 Adıyaman 5 Afyonkarahisar 6 Ağrı 4 Aksaray 4 Amasya 3 Ankara 36 Ankara (I) 13 Ankara (II) 11 Ankara (III) 12 Antalya 17 Ardahan 2 Artvin 2 Aydın 8 Balıkesir 9 Bartın 2 Batman 5 Bayburt 1 Bilecik 2 Bingöl 3 Bitlis 3

District MPs Bolu 3 Burdur 3 Bursa 20 Bursa (I) 10 Bursa (II) 10 Çanakkale 4 Çankırı 2 Çorum 4 Denizli 7 Diyarbakır 12 Düzce 3 Edirne 4 Elazığ 5 Erzincan 2 Erzurum 6 Eskişehir 6 Gaziantep 14 Giresun 4 Gümüşhane 2 Hakkâri 3 Hatay 11

District MPs Iğdır 2 Isparta 4 Istanbul 98 Istanbul (I) 35 Istanbul (II) 27 Istanbul (III) 36 İzmir 28 İzmir (I) 14 İzmir (II) 14 Kahramanmaraş 8 Kars 3 Kastamonu 3 Karabük 3 Karaman 3 Kayseri 10 Kilis 2 Kırklareli 3 Kırıkkale 3 Kırşehir 2 Kocaeli 14 Konya 15

District MPs Kütahya 5 Malatya 6 Manisa 10 Mardin 6 Mersin 13 Muğla 7 Muş 3 Nevşehir 3 Niğde 3 Ordu 6 Osmaniye 4 Rize 3 Sakarya 8 Samsun 9 Siirt 3 Sinop 2 Sivas 5 Şanlıurfa 14 Şırnak 4 Tekirdağ 8 Tokat 5

District MPs Trabzon 6 Tunceli 1 Uşak 3 Van 8 Yalova 3 Yozgat 4 Zonguldak 5 Total 600

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